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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)
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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You might if some other program checks whether that file exists and behaves differently depending on that.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But even still, what's a realistic usecase that would that involve needing a blank, unmodified file in that instance?

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One use case is if you're running a web server that is configured to return a "maintenance" page instead of the live site if a particular file exists. Which is actually pretty cool because then you don't have to update the config when you need to do something or let your users get a bunch of 502 errors, you just touch maintenance and you're good.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

That's a good one!